" BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship will set sail for the Gulf of Aden on Friday to protect Chinese merchant ships from an increasing number of pirate attacks in the waters off the...
""The logging moratorium should become a government policy, instead of being a forest guard, and receiving wages from forest and environment destroyers as offered by REDD," Walhi executive director, Chalid...
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"Early in 1941 the Dies Committee came into possession of a strategic
map which gave clear proof of the intentions of the Japanese to make an
assault on Pearl Harbor. The strategic map was prepared by the Japanese
Imperial Military Intelligence Department. Dies telephoned...
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"Although there is no doubt that after September, 1939, Roosevelt
definitely preferred to get into the war directly in Europe, he had
always kept Japan as an ace in his sleeve ever since his meeting with
Stimson in January, 1933, and the first meeting of his Cabinet in
March,...
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"This was done to undermine the Japanese peace party that was still
in office, and to strengthen the war party. This aim was fully
accomplished when Roosevelt and Hull unceremoniously brushed off the
impressive effort of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye of Japan to reach...
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"The attack was a surprise to our men at Pearl, their families, the
American public, and the world at large. But while the extent of the
human toll may have come as a shock to him, FDR was hardly surprised by
the attack itself."
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October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson
wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be
done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first
bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After
meeting...
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"I want you to know that your government has no information which it
has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the
most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.
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June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait
five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor.
The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something
that should now be solid American history.
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June 6, 2001::Robert Ogg had been in Naval Intelligence during the war.
Ogg had detected the presence of a Japanese task force working its way
toward Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Japanese force had been
under radio silence. But the silence had been broken on a number...
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A code clerk at the U.S. embassy in London discovered secret dispatches
between Roosevelt and Churchill. These revealed that FDR, despite
contrary campaign promises, was determined to engage America in the
war. He smuggled some of the documents out of the embassy, hoping...
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"When the Japanese attack hit Pearl Harbor, the targets they found were
older relics from a bygone age; the 21 modern ships of the Pacific
fleet, including the two carriers, were safely out of harm's way."
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"Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during
World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and
concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to
bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war...
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